It doesn’t take too long of a listen to Sugar & Gold before it becomes apparent that this bold and plucky electro quintet is definitely not aiming to be categorized. And that’s okay, because after producing for acts like the roguish Gravy Train!!!! of the underground indie-dance scene and hitting the road with the eclectically ornate Of Montreal, one could only expect the consequential product to be far from conservative; Get Wet! meets such an expectation and it does so with idiosyncratic style.

From the first fifteen seconds all the way to the very last throbbing pulsation, effervescent disco grooves drenched in an electric pop sauce blur genre lines with a funky and far-out flair. The nods to George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic heyday on “Sneek Freeq” echo Kelis’ “What’s That Right There” while stridently ricocheting the fearless five’s unique persona. At one point, Get Wet! begins to bubble over with deep dub electro (“It’s All Over You”). Throw in songs that tingle with trance-inducing bass lines such as the infectious “Bodyaches,” and all of a sudden the overall vibe becomes an invigorating madcap breed of technotronic euphoria that Sugar & Gold could only place in a class of their own.

Contagiously fun and zanily eccentric, The Antenna Farm Records-released sequel to 2007’s Creme screams a sort of poppy vibrant valiance that isn’t entirely retro but isn’t wholly nouveau-schematic, either. Thus, it becomes a bit of a challenge when trying to compare and contrast Get Wet! to previously released records, but let’s just say that if Chromeo were to resurrect Rick James, collaborate with Jamiroquai, and then make a dance album with Simian Mobile Disco, this is probably what it would sound like.

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